Extensive touring commenced, as they joined up for gigs (which often included water guns, confetti, and costumes) with bands like
the Format and
the All-American Rejects. The music video/live DVD OMG HGB DVD ROTFL appeared in the fall of 2005, and by the year's end the band had won the on-air MTV Dew Circuit Breakout contest, beating
Over It and
Tub Ring in the end. Early 2006 was spent playing sold-out nationwide dates as openers for
the Academy Is... before hooking up with
Motion City Soundtrack and
Straylight Run in the spring for the MTVU Campus Invasion Tour. A spot on May's Bamboozle festival preceded a summer spent on the Warped Tour. All this activity ultimately led up to the release of their highly anticipated full-length Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!, which finally hit stores that August. The album was a chart success "Here (In Your Arms)" raced up the singles chart.
After more touring, the band began to run into some problems. First came the departure of Jesse Kurvink, then more lineup shuffles and a protracted lawsuit led to a lack of product from the band until a self-released single ("When We First Met") arrived in late 2009. By then the band had shifted musical direction away from emo-pop and toward a lush indie pop sound free of Auto-Tune and novelty songs. By the time they released their 2010 album, Would It Kill You?, the band consisted of Kline (who played nearly everything on the album himself), drummer Mike Nielsen, bassist Travis Head, keyboardist Joseph Marro, and guitarist Andrew Richards. The group toured after the album's release, garnering a spot on the 2011 Warped Tour. Marro left the band in early 2012, citing family issues, to be replaced by Augie Rampolla of
You, Me, and Everyone We Know. Later that year,
Old Friends Records signed the band and re-released Would It Kill You? with a couple bonus tracks. The next album was another Kline solo project apart from the drums and some horn and string parts, and brought some '80s influences to the table. Co-produced by Joe Chiccarelli, Everything Is Debatable was released in late 2013. ~ Corey Apar, Rovi